Krazy Kiwi wrote:
>
> While drumming my fingers hoping someone on the newscientist list will
> answer Jean Marc's query, whether 'fish feeling pain' I came across this
> question about lobsters.
> http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/lwa1161plants.html
>
> I have always been told to put anything sort of creepy-crawly, that is
> still alive, in to the deep freeze to put it to sleep before cooking it.
> Was also by a chef that dropping lobster in to a hot pot of water was a
> definite no-no as they tense up causing their flesh to harden from the
> shock.

What! This is destroying my whole system of values. Your useless
chef forgot to mention that you had first to cut the lobster in
two (alive of course).  :-)

Jean-Marc